By training the mind in patience, it leaves a positive imprint on your mind. Then later you find it easier for the mind to be patient and more and more difficult for the mind to get angry. It’s the same with self-cherishing or bodhicitta. Whichever way one trains the mind, one can become more easily habituated towards that mind even in this life. -…

Happiness comes from a positive attitude and action motivated by that. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche This month on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive podcast, Lama Zopa Rinpoche answers a student’s question about the relationship between the mind and the heart when practicing bodhichitta, how to be authentic in the practice of compassion, and where to locate happ…

The meditation practice is like the seed. The actual body of meditation, the practice, that is like the seed and purifying the hindrances and the accumulation of merit are like the soil and water. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains why we must prepare the ground of our mind with merit accumulation and karmic purification so that the se…

Even giving just one single tiny grain of rice to one single sentient being will accumulate infinite merit when you are motivated to give by the precious wish to attain enlightenment to benefit numberless sentient beings. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the power and importance of the precious bodhicitta during teachings on Geshe L…

Every single phenomena is like that. There’s merely gathered, the base to be labeled, then due to that, then mere imputation, then only after that, then you have that appearance. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche In these teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche given during a lamrim retreat held at Vajrapani Institute in Boulder Creek, California, from August 20-23, 200…

Compassion should be at the heart of our life, at the center of all our relationships and in all our practices. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives the transmission of the mantra and dharani of Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion and explains why reciting these mantra helps us to develop compassion from the center of our heart for all bein…

If you don’t practice Dharma, don’t learn Dharma, don’t meditate, if you don’t pray to have realization of the path to enlightenment, at least even the path to liberation, if you don’t do that then so many sentient beings have to suffer for you to live, for your happiness, it is so unimaginable, unbearable, so unbearable. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Everyt…

Manjushri bodhisattva is the highest manifestation of being, the embodiment of all knowledge. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche The Ārya-mañjuśrī-nāma-saṅgīti (Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri) consists of 160 verses and mantra sentences, condensing an enormous tantric lore. Listen to Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the Ārya-mañjuśrī-nāma-saṅgīti in Tibetan. Ri…

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Guided meditation and Dharma talk on "Part 2- Applying Four Noble Truths in Our Daily Lives", with guest teacher, David Le.InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, December 11th, 2022.By InsightLA Long Beach

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Dharma talk on "Mudita- Rejoicing in the Good Fortune of Others" with InsightLA teacher, Cayce Howe.InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, November 27th, 2022.By InsightLA Long Beach

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Dharma talk on "Pathways to the Heart" with guest teacher, Amanda Gilbert.InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, August 21st, 2022.By InsightLA Long Beach

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Guided Meditation and Dharma talk on "Mindfulness- Surfing the Wave of Emotions" with guest teacher, David Le.InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, July 24th, 2022.By InsightLA Long Beach

Guided meditation and dharma talk on "Meditative Mind Training & Its Application to Daily Life" with guest teacher David Le.InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, July 17th, 2022.By InsightLA Long Beach

Dharma talk on "Right Speech & Climate Conversations" with guest teacher, Cate Swigart.InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, July 3rd, 2022.By InsightLA Long Beach

Dharma talk on "Simplifying Our Tonglen Practice" with guest teacher, Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi.InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, June 26th, 2022.By InsightLA Long Beach

Dharma talk on "The Four Themed Precious Garland" by Longchenpa, with InsightLA teacher, Cayce Howe.By InsightLA Long Beach

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Dharma talk on "Perseverance of the Heart" with InsightLA teacher, Cayce Howe.InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, May 30th, 2022.By InsightLA Long Beach

Dharma talk on "The Heavenly Abodes" with InsightLA teacher, Cayce Howe.InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, May 8th, 2022.By InsightLA Long Beach

Dharma talk on "Advice from Atisha" with InsightLA teacher, Cayce Howe. InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, May 1st, 2022.By InsightLA Long Beach

Dharma talk on "Equanimity as a Healing Practice- Part 2, with InsightLA teacher, Wendy Block.InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, April 24th, 2022By InsightLA Long Beach

Dharma talk on "Concentration" with InsightLA teacher, Cayce Howe.InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, April 3rd, 2022.By InsightLA Long Beach

Dharma talk on "The Third Noble Truth- The End of Suffering" with InsightLA teacher, Cayce Howe.InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, March 20th, 2022.By InsightLA Long Beach

Guided meditation and dharma talk on "The Second Noble Truth- The Cause of Suffering" with InsightLA teacher, Cayce Howe.InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, March 13th, 2022.By InsightLA Long Beach

Dharma talk and meditation on "The First Noble Truth- The Reality of Suffering", with Cayce Howe.InsightLA Long Beach, Sunday Sit, March 6th, 2022.By InsightLA Long Beach